Entries for month: June 2012

I was creating a PDF form using Adobe LifeCycle Designer to collect some data from external users to be sent back for processing via ColdFusion.

Whilst doing so I came across a task that I thought would have been quite trivial / easy but I found it not to be that obvious so again in leiu of my last post I hope this saves someone from digging around to get the answer!

Firstly, I did what any other user would do in my situation and hit the F1 key to access the help. My search results for "Tab Index" were proving unsuccessful until I discovered that LifeCycle refers to it as "Tab Order". This made a huge difference and I was able to hone straight into the material I was after and was pleasantly surprised.

Anyway, in a nutshell here's what to do:

From the menu, select "View > Tab Order" - obvious I know but not really when you're looking through the object properties trying to find the damn thing!

The follow these steps:

Hold Shift then click the object you want to be 1st with the left mouse button

Click the remaining fields in order. There is a number in the top left which represents the current order. This should change as you click.

When complete, select "View > Tab Order" again from the menu to return to edit mode.

And that's that.

On the upside, I found the Tab Order functionality above quite easy and intuitive to use and also saved me from having to manually update some property of each and every object in the form, of which I had approx. 60.

Here's a link to a video from Adobe TV which also shows the same process for Adobe Acrobat Pro.

I was writing some windows batch scripts to automate some Subversion tasks and I wanted to re-configure the display of the windows cmd.exe window. I know Console2 and DOSBox are out there but cmd.exe is the default so I'm running with that for now.

So, in the cmd.exe properties dialog (right-click the title bar and select defaults) I configured the command window / dialog display options to be "Full Screen".

Once I ran my batch file, cmd.exe turned my laptop into a dumb terminal / DOS interface while running the sequence of events I had configured. It's okay, once complete it return back to Windows normally but that wasn't the effect I was after!! I simply wanted a larger command window within windows...

PROBLEM

The problem now though was - How the hell do I get back to "Window" mode? Everything I ran with cme.exe was switching to this mode!!

ANSWER

Quite simply using the key combination Alt+Enter, I was able to toggle between "Window" and "Full Screen" mode.